My suggestion to you then is to reevaluate the different issues not based on the people / caricatures of people who support it (be it crooked politicians or peaceful hippies or anything in between) but more on their merits, taking nuance into account. I recently had quite a constructive conversation with someone leaning much farther to the right than myself about immigration and the discussion led me to understand not only his views and arguments better but also my own.I'm not saying that I've picked a side, just trying to give some insight on the cause of it.
Well I mean honestly, I would probably consider myself an anarchist. But I realise that my vision of the world is utopian so I have no choice but to choose one devil over another devil. That doesn't change that I view them as devils though. I'm not so sure that even judging by merit would help my views of these people - politicians in this instance - that have no mastery or qualifications other than marketing and being successful at navigating the minefield of political jargon. If our 'leaders' were scientists I might take a side but otherwise the 'left' and the 'right' seem mostly the same to me. One way or another it all boils down to money. I've learnt this from flirting with green style activism and I've learnt this from history. Nothing is worthy of respect or consideration unless there is economic value, not as far as politics and laws are concerned. And I cannot respect that whether you call yourself democrat, socialist, capitalist or god's chosen people. I honestly think I'm better off not choosing a side at all. That way I don't need to shift my morals and values depending on who happens to be wearing my colours and flying my flag at this moment.